Better Than Your Best: Follow Your Path and Learn to Fly

I've been traveling all day to get to a retreat that I hope will actually be a forward! I'm experiencing what I call the "slingshot effect." This effect gives you the feeling that you're being pulled back and that you're losing ground but, in fact, you're in the saddle of a slingshot poised to be let loose so that you can fly much further than you could have gone if you had merely kept trudging forward one foot after another.

Sometimes, you must allow yourself the perspective that going backwards is often the fastest way forward. By pausing from your current activity to examine your past patterns of thought and behavior and their consequent results, you can learn to move at greater speed toward accomplishing a personal or professional goal. By consciously interpreting a setback as a step forward, you prepare yourself to be released with greater force and momentum toward a target that now seems far distant and perhaps unattainable. Let yourself go back during those times of being pulled back so that you can learn to trust the path that you're on even if you feel you're being dragged in the wrong direction. By learning to trust your path you'll learn how to fly and cut your time to goal achievement!

Throw your heart over the goal line and your body with soon catch up!

Ken